On This Day

In Boxing History!

Michael Nunn vs Donald Curry

October 18th, 1990

IBF World Middleweight Title

Palais Omnisport de Paris-Bercy, Paris, France 

October 18th

1912: Johnny Coulon ND10 Kid Williams

1915: Sam Langford W15 (Battling) Jim Johnson

Joe Symonds KO16 Tancy Lee

1927: Jimmy McLarnin KO8 Louis (Kid) Kaplan

1958: Thomas “Hitman” Hearns born, Memphis, Tennessee

1960: Richard Sandoval was born in Pomona, California

1963: Kid Williams, passes.

1974: Susumu Hanagata KO6 Chartchai Chionoi

1980: Shoji Oguma W15 Chan Hee Park

1987: Hiroki Ioka W12 Mai Thonburifarm

1989: Luisito Espinosa KO1 Kaokor Galaxy

1990: Michael Nunn KO10 Donald Curry

Luis Mendoza W12 Fabrice Benichou

1991: Ray Mercer KO5 Tommy Morrison

1999: British middleweight Adrian Dodson is banned from boxing for 18 months and fined $1,500.00 for biting Canadian opponent Alain Bonnamie on the stomach during a bout in London on October 5.

2000: Promoter Cedric Kushner is fined $100,000.00 by the New York State Athletic Commission for paying bribes to the IBF.

2003: In Jin Chi D12 Michael Brodie

2008: Bernard Hopkins W12 Kelly Pavlik

2010: Esther Schouten W10 Judy Waguthii

2014: Nicholas Walters TKO6 Nonito Donaire  

Gennadiy Golovkin KO2 Marco Antonio Rubio

Krzysztof Glowacki KO5 Thierry Karl

Joey Williams W12 Rusmin Kie Raha

2016: Amanda Serrano TKO1 Alexandra Lazar

2019: Artur Beterbiev TKO10 Oleksandr Gvozdyk